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From drama to silky smoothness, the V8 does it all. Here are our favourites…

Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

The first bearer of perhaps motoring’s most famous brand name and widely regarded as the first modern car, thanks mainly to its low-mounted engine. “The manner in which the gear lever is moved to obta

If you told a Triumph dealer in 1965 that less than two decades later the famous name would have been last seen on a British-built Honda, they would probably have regarded you as an eccentric. Some 60

The irony of our final approach to Leonardo Fioravanti’s lofty residence, perched high in the hills above Turin, is not lost on me. After emerging unscathed from a high-speed, near-1300km journey from

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w